Week #8
The Early Republic
Monday, Oct 12th
Songs
• Olmeca, “The Browning of America” (3:49):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeipM2f2Aek
• Chalino Sanchez, "Corrido De Rosalino” (2:44):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLx7zR7ggs
• Manu Chao, “Mu Gustas Tu” (4:00):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs6Y4kZ8qtw
Were the Sons of Liberty Terrorists?
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What was the first act that upset colonists and led to revolutionary acts?
Define terrorism:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence
the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the
conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
• Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
• Is calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or
coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct; and
• Is a violation of one of several listed statutes, including § 930(c) (relating to killing
or attempted killing during an attack on a federal facility with a dangerous
weapon); and § 1114 (relating to killing or attempted killing of officers and
employees of the U.S.).
Slavery and the Revolution
• Slavery and the American Revolution
• Katherine Bankole-Medina (7:02):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpCTMmpJxNs
What is better: Strong State or Strong Fed
• Where do we see these debates
to day?
Week #8
The Early Republic
Wednesday, Oct 14th
Songs
• Yo La Tengo, “Nuclear War” (7:36):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShnILtLnoQ
• Yo La Tengo, “Drug Test” (4:07):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKScARvrtI
Civics 101
• Why did the founders decide on an upper (Senate) and lower (House of
Representatives)?
• Explain the importance of The Bill of Rights
• Hamilton:
• Self interest drives humanity, wealthy are a needed element
• Ties the rich to the government through bonds (if the rich are invested, it will
continue to work)
• Federal assumption of war debt
• Built class inequality into the nation through banking system
• John Jay:
• “Jay’s Treaty”, government trade agreement with Britain for removal of British
military from Northwest territory
• Favored a British monarchy over their rivals, our former ally, the new French republic
• Formalized the federalists and the republicans into two distinct political parties
Civics 101
• French Revolution:
• Deepened American divide, Feds fearing, Republicans holding out hope
• Reign of Terror (3:41):
• http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution/videos/robespierre-andthe-reign-of-terror
• Drunk History- Adams vs Jefferson (2:26):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwHzmA9jNQ
• Election of 1800:
• Power transfers from Adams the Federalist to Jefferson, the
Republican, (The Constitution says nothing of political parties)
• Marbury v. Madison, 1803: Supreme Court essentially rules that it will
decide if Congressional measures are Constitutional
Rebellion
• Shays’ Rebellion
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Gabriel’s Rebellion
• Who was involved?
• Why were they dissatisfied?
• What was the response from the new government?
Rebellion
• Shays’ Rebellion
• Weakness of the feds, failure of US to take care of troops, Washington “If
government Shrinks or is unable to enforce its law… anarchy and confusion must
prevail”, Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.“ Regulators shut down the
courts, prevented seizure of property, private army quells the rebellion
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Reveals continued resistance to taxation, more importantly proves feds ability to put
down internal insurrection
• Gabriel’s Rebellion
• Reveals frustration of slaves and also the lengths governments were to go to
perpetuate slavery, followed by harsh and repressive slave codes, 26 hung
• Alien and Sedition acts:
• Way to silence federalist political opponents
• Highlights the tendency of Americans to blame problems on foreign “invaders”
• Opponents articulate a new version of freedom of the press and speech
Haitian Revolution
• Haitian Revolution (5:03):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAwJvZdbCg
Republican Motherhood: A Brief History of 19th
Century Womanhood
• Republican Motherhood emerges after the Revolutionary war, starts the trend of
a divided women’s/private sphere, men’s/public sphere
• Slow industrialization increasingly makes the public the economic sphere,
domestic work is removed from a notion of economics
• Civil War results in the death of many men plus rapid industrialization: many
single/unattached women who enter the work force
• Industrial capital expands rapidly
• Capitalism requires wage labor, cash economy favors men
• Elite women craft their identity around notions of Republican motherhood, their
moral sanctity, and their place in the domestic sphere, they elevate domesticity
as an identity
• Working women become the object of their reformers and the vessels of all that
is bad about women
• Elite women are in place to reform, despite constant challenges from women
who see work as a form of independence
• The view of women’s place in the domestic sphere prevails despite it never
accurately describing the history of women
• All of this before women can vote!!